Comment on Ableism in the Signup Process
LufyCZ@lemmy.world 7 months agoThere’s a reason captchas are so prevalent.
They’re easy to implement, cheap to run, and work for the absolute majority of people.
There’s always going to be someone it doesn’t work for, and in the end, it’s just about what’s “worth it” for the developers and admins.
Would you rather focus on optimizing Lemmy for it to scale for milions of users or spend the time developing and alternative captcha solution which would open it up for a couple hundred more people?
I’m not trying to dismiss the issue of accessibility, but it’s also important to keep reality in mind.
pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Yeah I think that is exactly the question that Op wanted to ask. Is there an “easy to implement” solution already available for visual impared persons if so you could advertise it to Lemmy admins. If not the question would be how difficult it would be to develop something and if it’s “worth it” really is another very subjective question.
LufyCZ@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Again, there is a reason why captchas exist and are prevalent.
If there was a simple solution that’d be better for everybody, it’d already exist and be used instead of captchas. IMO